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This is Wiley. He has never seen snow before and wants to make sure he gets a real good look at it. For science. 12/10 (IG: smileywileydog)

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

Important addition here!

Museum reveals remarkable origins of 'women and children first' The Fusilier Museum boasts a range of artefacts from a little-known but significant piece of history.

The Birkenhead drill didn't come about until the 1850's only. Before that women/children made up most of the dead in shipwrecks, so me thinks it was first in, best dressed and not chivalry that is at the forefront of the mind of many a man

A kākāpō on a nest with two eggs. Credit: Andrew Digby

Three more #kakapo nests found on Pukenui/Anchor Island yesterday. Here's Konini with her two eggs. We have found nests for 26 out of the 36 adult females on the island, with more to come in the next few days. It's a big year! #conservation #kakapo2026 A

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

David Seymour says Kiwis are too squeamish about privatisation – history shows why they lost the appetite The ACT Party leader believes government assets should provide a return or be sold. But a majority of New Zealanders are consistently opposed to more privatisation.

David Seymour says kiwis are squeamish about handing state assets - paid for by everyone - to ACT party donors to make profits they don’t need & reduce services & supports we require for a dignified life. #nzpol

Yeah David we’re as understandably squeamish as you are self-serving. Hugely. #ACTout

I now feel like there is actually a stupid Canadian wolf bird out there somewhere and no one's discovered it yet

Tiny cheeky envelope with a Polaroid of himself - card reads Unsolicited Dik-Dik Pic

(One of, bolsters self for incoming Dick Van Dyke images etc) the only acceptable way(s) to send someone an unsolicited DikPik.

Blank for your message so can be for various occasions. Or Valentine’s Day. (I can write and send too)

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#love #valentinesday #bsnm

Screenshot of an X.com post by Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) quoting an exchange: “Reporter: The president called you a loser.” It attributes a response to Republican Senator Thom Tillis: “I am thrilled about that. That makes me qualified to be homeland security secretary and senior adviser to the president.” Below is a CNN hallway scrum video thumbnail of Tillis speaking to reporters. A lower-third reads “DEVELOPING STORY” and “GOP SEN. TILLIS: ‘I DON’T HAVE ANY CONFIDENCE’ IN NOEM,” with “LIVE” and CNN branding.

Zing! Sen. Tillis goes for the jugular with Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller.

Doing gods work

My sister is a fence sitter re who she votes for. Has voted for most of the parties. And I would say that that post will make her angry after she spent the night working at Civil Defence until 4am this morning in Tauranga. He just can not read the room 😠

Cross Stitch portrait of woman with black hair, green eyes, a green knitted jumper & yellow knitted hat. Green background colours. 78.5cm x 70cm

Tip my Ko-Fi $25NZD or more before Mon 19th Jan at 10.00am & you’ll go in the draw to win my ‘Green Girl’ Cross Stitch (78.5cm x 70cm unframed). Almost a year of daily work to finish. Please share widely, I need as many supporters as possible.
#Kikorangi
#CrossStitch

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Christen, is in the collections area

Do you work at MOTAT? My friend works there too but at the warehouse in Penrose

Why are there 100 Jet-asleep and only 90 Jet-alert? What happened to the other 10 days??

HUMAN RIGHTS, by any chance? 💭🙄 #nzpol

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

Opinion | You can’t be diverse if you exclude white men Those year-end book lists that claim to be all about diversity often seem to miss this one major demographic. By Annie Holmquist

Fact | You can't write something predicated in the utterly ludicrous assumption that white men are being excluded from publishing unless you are racist.

Well there are only 366 days until Christmas, so best to be prepared 😀

Robert Reich Our Economy Is in Danger. Here’s Why

Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.

This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation… NOTE: this essay is a 15 minute read. If it’s listed as longer than that, it’s because it contains a list of over 100 references at the…

every politician who attempts to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth is anti-science, transphobic, or some combination. prior to their votes, they should be forced onto cross-sex hormones so they can experience the horror they're inflicting on these kids
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

18 as well due to AOL

Headline-grabbing quote named best of the year The winning quote’s power lies in its purpose, say judges for the 2025 Massey University Quote of the Year.

"Turns out you can have it all. So long as you're prepared to be a c…t to the women who birth your kids, school your offspring and wipe the arse of your elderly parents while you stand on their shoulders to earn your six-figure, taxpayer-funded pay packet,” Vance wrote. #nzpol

What a chonky Kākāpō 😍

Saw a video of someone trying those jelly beans, was hilarious 😂 You'll have to let us know what they taste like 🤢

They are so beautiful 😍

‘This is just the start’: New medical centre rapidly taking shape The owners are promising a new standard of care for the community when the Masterton centre is completed late next year.

And Iwi are stepping in instead and doing what the government should be providing. God I hate this government and everything they do 😤

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